Let’s dwelve into our first blog by doing a small visualisation exercise of the covid situation in Israel! I intend to make this first blog to be less formal but more friendly, so we can get to know each other better. Let’s visualize together!
Introduce the current situation in Iraq.
Choose this country purposely to show the counter intuitive
Irad used to be regarded as the “cradle of civilization” of the Middle Ages. The country is a home to many heritage and historic sites, originating back from the golden time of the Ottoman regime. Some of the cultural heritage we may have heard of would include the Hanging garden in Babylon, the remnants of palace and buildings…..
However, looking at the country now, all we see is a turbulence of time of wars, fightings and violences. Hunderes of Iraq people fled the country to run away from the terrorists, people died and lost their homes amid the bombing …. (find reference for this).
In the next section, i will try to recap some of the highlights of the Iraq’s contemporary current situation based on the choronological order. I handpicked only events that i believed directly led to the current state of Iraq. Before I start, i want you to answer this question yourself: “How do you make of Iraq? Is it a poor country with high children mortality rate, poor facility, high iliteracy rate and ect..”. Please keep your answer in mind and proceed.
Our story started
Kurds have never achieved nation-state status, making Kurdistan a non-governmental region and one of the largest stateless nations in the world.
Portions of the region are recognized by two countries: Iran, where the province of Kordestan lies; and northern Iraq, site of the autonomous region known as Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) or Iraqi Kurdistan.
Kurds were mostly nomadic until the end of World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman Empire.
Kurds make up about 10% of the population in Syria, 19% of the population of Turkey, 15-20% of the population of Iraq and are the second largest ethnicity in Iran.
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